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Top 3 Patrick Deville Books

15/12/2023

For a novelist, Patrick Deville seems more like a biographer of disruptively relevant characters who passed through such disparate places as Central Africa, Southeast Asia or Central America. Guys in search of adventure and glories (glories already lost in no less overexploited colonies), in a nineteenth-century period so ...

Pure Life. The Life and Death of William Walker, by Patrick Deville

05/02/2020

In the end, the story offers a different vision, a kind of true human brilliance thanks to grotesque and bizarre characters like William Walker. Crazy people convinced by improvised ideals for adventure and who end up revealing the great miseries and underground plans that other supposed great men meditate for their ...